Blender | 3 Camera Work Techniques

Prerequisites

Blender: v4.0.2

1. Camera Work Using Dummy Objects

The last object chosen becomes active, so it becomes the parent.
This results in a hierarchy like “/small cube/large cube/camera/”, where child elements are affected by the parent’s transform.

Their roles are as follows.

• Small cube: rotates on the Z axis.
• Large cube: rotates on the XY axes.
• Camera: moves along the Z axis.

※ Pressing z twice, like g → z → z, lets you change the transform value along an axis based on the object’s own origin rather than the world origin.

2. Camera Work Along a Path

1. Add it via shift + a → Curve > Bezier.
2. Adjust it in Edit Mode into the camera path you want.
3. Switch the viewpoint to look down from the Z axis (viewing the scene from above).
4. Add a camera.
5. With the camera chosen, add Follow Path from Object Constraints.
6. Choose the Bezier curve as the target.

Animate it by changing the offset value.

3. Camera Work That Follows a Target

Finally

Reference

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFo4JXyUNY&t=342s